Italian pianist Enrico Elisi, a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in the Riverside Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

His program will be the Partita in B-flat Major, No. 1, BWV 825, by Johann Sebastian Bach; Zwei kleine Schwingungen by Wolfgang Rihm; the Sonata in G Major, No. 16, Op. 31, No. 1, by Ludwig van Beethoven; the Sonata in F Major, K. 332, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; three pieces by György Kurtág; and the Hungarian Rhapsody in A Minor, No. 13, by Franz Liszt.

Elisi regularly performs throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, with recent engagements in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. He has appeared with orchestras in Italy, Portugal, and the United States, and in 2007 he debuted as soloist/conductor with the Green Valley Festival Chamber Orchestra, a festival that he co-founded and directed.

Among Elisi’s awards are top prizes in the Venice Competition and the Oporto International Competition. He has also received the La Gesse Foundation Fellowship, which led to performances in Toulouse, France, and New York’s Weill Hall. He recently established and is president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Liszt Society, and he teaches at the Eastman School of Music.